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Change naming of MQTT entities to correspond with HA guidelines #95159

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Breaking change

The way MQTT entities are named and how device configuration can be shared between discovered entities has changed

Sharing of device configuration

Discovered MQTT entities can share device configuration, meaning one entity can include the full device configuration and other entities can link to that device by only setting mandatory fields.
The mandatory fields were previously limited to at least one of connection and identifiers, but has now been extended to at least one of connection and identifiers as well as the name.

Naming of MQTT entities

Naming of MQTT entities has been changed to be aligned with the entity naming guidelines:

  • The has_entity_name entity will be set to True on all MQTT entities
  • This means any MQTT entity which is part of a device will automatically have it's friendly_name attribute prefixed with the device name
  • Unnamed binary_sensor, button, number and sensor entities will now be named by their device class instead of being named "MQTT binary sensor" etc.
  • It's now allowed to set an MQTT entity's name to None to mark it as the main feature of a device

Proposed change

Change naming of MQTT entities to better correspond with the current guidelines in https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/#entity-naming

Always set the has_entity_name attribute on MQTT entities to True.

If a device_class is set and the entity name is not set, it follows the device class name.
The changed behavior for the generation the default entity_id is documented in the linked docs PR.

The name and in MQTT entity can now also explicitly be set to None (or null in a JSON discovery payload).
This will avoid inherit the device name as friendly name.

Link blog post PR: home-assistant/developers.home-assistant#1851

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@jbouwh jbouwh changed the title Set use device_name over default name set on MQTT entities Use device_name over default name set on MQTT entities Jun 24, 2023
@jbouwh jbouwh changed the title Use device_name over default name set on MQTT entities Use device_name over default name on MQTT entities Jun 24, 2023
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@jbouwh jbouwh changed the title Use device_name over default name on MQTT entities Use device_name over default name on MQTT entities or rename after device_class Jun 28, 2023
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@jbouwh jbouwh changed the title Change naming of MQTT entities to better correspond with HA guidelines Change naming of MQTT entities to correspond with HA guidelines Jul 21, 2023
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Thanks @jbouwh 👍

@jbouwh jbouwh merged commit 447fbf5 into home-assistant:dev Jul 21, 2023
@jbouwh jbouwh deleted the mqtt-default-entity-name branch July 21, 2023 10:52
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